Amazon’s new board member is a cybersecurity founder who sold his last company to Google for $5.4B

New Amazon board member Kevin Mandia is a cybersecurity veteran. (Photo via Amazon) Amazon has named cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia to its board of directors , adding new security expertise a few months after former NSA director Keith Alexander stepped down . Mandia founded Mandiant, the breach-investigation firm Google acquired for $5.4 billion in 2022 , and remained at the search giant as a strategic advisor through July 2025, according to his LinkedIn profile.